Awarded the Prize “for his experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.”

French physicist. Born on June 15, 1947 in Agen, France. Dr. Aspect received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris XI (now the University of Paris-Saclay) in 1983. Currently, he is a researcher at the University of Paris-Saclay, France and the Polytechnic Institute of Palaiseau, France.